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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 23h

But our people, the American people, descendants of immigrants from every corner of the globe or immigrants themselves, we are a great people, and we have the capacity to be truly amazing.

Flood the zone.

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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 23h

“Make America great again“?? It never really was, although at some points we have come close. On a governmental standard, from a policy standpoint, we are so very far away from greatness right now.

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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 23h

They flood the zone every day with outrage & scandal & destruction; we will flood the zone every day with creation & compassion & building toward a better tomorrow, forever striving for the More Perfect Union, not gazing solipsistically backward at some golden age that never existed.

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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 23h

We flood the zone.

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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 23h

Florida can “teach” (indoctrinate) whatever stupidity that it wants to, while here in Pennsylvania will actually teach the children, the young adults, the lifelong learners FOR FREE, because an educated populous is one of the most desirable things that a nation can have.

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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 23h

Linda McMahon is going to destroy the department of education and public education in this country, which has been a beacon to scholars from around the world for 100 years? Short-sighted, but have at, Hoss!

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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 23h

Texas wants to have a bounty Hunter law, allowing people seeking an abortion to be arrested, their doctors and nurses to be thrown into prison for forever? Shoot your shot. California and the rest can make certain that everyone is welcome to seek healthcare with them inside of their borders.

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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 23h

Texas, Louisiana and Florida want to gerrymander their districts so that only Republicans can win, and that minorities can never have an actual say in their own government? Fine. Do it. So can California, Colorado, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Maryland, but for the Dems.

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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 23h

So we flood the zone. We do everything everywhere. Every issue, every great and good campaign and every pet liberal cause.

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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 23h

This government, rather this clown car of inanities, grievances, bigotry, pseudoscience, hatred, ignorance, narcissism, and greed, has failed each and every one of us, whether we be American or not. Every person on these shores, and in the world, is worse off because of these clowns.

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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 23h

Each state makes sanctuary cities the rule, not the exception, because every person in America, EVERYONE, has certain inalienable rights that are laid out in the Declaration of Independence & in the Bill of Rights of the Constitution.

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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 23h

We institute single payer healthcare. Whether we call it “Medicare For All” or “The Lollipop Guild,” or what have you, we can no longer afford — & haven’t for a very long time — to live with the system that we have. Obamacare was a Band-Aid, nothing more, & even that’s now being taken away from us.

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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 23h

We eliminate entirely the minimum wage (the conservatives will actually love this part!) and institute a LIVING WAGE (the elected conservatives may like this part a little bit less).

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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 23h

Did they get a sweetheart of a deal? Yes they did, but that is only part of the problem.

We raise taxes on the wealthy and corporations, because that is the cost of civilization. We lower the cost of education and raise the funding of it. We make 100% illegal predatory loans and payday lenders.

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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 23h

Let let’s look back a few years when Amazon was holding auditions between different cities to build a new hub. Did they go anywhere out of the ordinary? No. They went exactly where we thought they would go: somewhere that already had good infrastructure and good amenities.

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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 23h

Everybody is always in fear of companies leaving, so they offer them everything in a way to say “please don’t hurt me, Mr. Bully. I’ll give you whatever you want!”

But that never works!

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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 23h

Companies love to have an educated workforce, a trained, workforce, in their immediate area. They like to have the amenities that taxes and a healthy tax base can buy: good schools, paved roads, a robust infrastructure, restaurants in downtown businesses.

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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 23h

Have a couple of focuses, sure, but do everything: state level taxes on millionaires and billionaires and corporations.

You say that companies will move out of a state because they’re no longer getting sweetheart tax deals? I say bull. They will complain, yes, but most will unlikely leave.

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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 23h

The majority of our national level progressive and Democratic politicians are not rising to meet the moment. It’s individual states, state and local leaders who are genuinely helping to lead the charge. And so, with them, we need to do everything.

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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 23h

( … ending a woman’s right to choose, attacking freedom of speech and of the press, etc., etc., etc.), likewise we progressives should flood the zone as well.

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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 23h

( … dismantling the department of education, defunding and putting a stop work order on the consumer financial protection bureau (CFPB), bulldozing the east wing of the White House to build a garage “ballroom“ that nobody asked for, …

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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 23h

Just as the fascistic, autocratic, so-called Grande Olde Party,” as led by their wannabe dictator-in-chief, have flooded the zone with far too much crap in order to prevent us from focusing on any one thing (i.e., ICE doing illegal arrests and harassing innocent people, defunding USAID, …)

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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 23h

Okay. Hear me out.

Instead of gnashing our teeth and worrying about our powerlessness, we go on the attack. Progressives need to make “conservatives” (re: fascists) so scared that we’re going to give everyone so many rights that gay, liberal, space utopia will be the only moderate way forward.

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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 23h

Okay, hear me out.

A (Possibly Rambling) Political Thread from A Mind With ADHD

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Dan Kostelec @dankostelec.bsky.social · 6d

Pretty accurate! I spent a couple of hours at the PA DMV (PennDOT) today, and this tracks

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